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FOLKLIFE VILLAGE
The Folklife Village is a free area at the Rougarou Fest where visitors can engage with various aspects of culture, humanities, and folklore. It features demonstrations, workshops, performances, and exhibits showcasing traditional crafts, music, dance, storytelling, and other traditions unique to South Louisiana.
Cultural practices are deeply intertwined with a community’s identity. Preserving these practices helps communities maintain a sense of who they are, fostering a connection to their heritage and ancestors. By preserving cultural practices, communities ensure the transmission of traditions, values, language, and history from one generation to the next. This is vital for maintaining identity, transmitting heritage, enriching cultural diversity, and demonstrating resilience and adaptation in the face of change.
The 2024 Folklife Village at the Rougarou Fest is made possible with funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Rebirth Grant. Rebirth Grants support programmatic initiatives focused on the humanities. Funding for this project has been provided by the State of Louisiana and administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The 2024 Folklife Village is also made possible with funding from the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area.
Join us on Friday, October 18th in the Folklife Village for a Pedro Tournament sponsored by Beck’s on the Bayou from 5pm-7pm and Cajun Music/Dancing from 6pm-8pm!
Tent 1: Le Chien Rouge “The Red Dog”
This area is home to the Atchafalaya Narrative Stage, also known as a Talk Stage or a Storytelling Stage, as our way of sharing our traditions and folklore with the rest of our community and with visitors to the area. This area features local culture bearers who discuss a particular topic or demonstrate a particular tradition while a moderator facilitates the conversation and allows for questions from the audience. This year’s narrative stage is supported by the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area.
Saturday, October 19th
Atchafalaya Narrative Stage conversations including:
12PM Lagniappe on the Bayou Reunion
1PM Chauvin School Reunion
2PM Learn the Shrimp Dance! And Drying Shrimp
3PM Beauty of the Bayou: Duck Carving with Gene Hebert
4PM Gifts of the Bayou: The Shrimping Life with Lance Nacio
Sunday, October 20th
Atchafalaya Narrative Stage conversations including:
12PM Sunday Storytelling Hour with Moose Jackson (Rougarou) and Sabina Miller (All Saints Day
1PM Gifts of the Bayou: Baskets from Palmetto and Cypress with Janie Luster and Douglas Fazzio
2PM Quilting Traditions with the Cane Cutters Quilting Guild
3PM Making a Pirogue with the Center for Traditional Boat Building
Tent 2: The Bayou Culture Collaborative
This area allows guests to interact with The Bayou Culture Collaborative, an initiative of the Louisiana Folklore Society to connect those interested in the human dimension of land loss, and its various working groups identifying what is needed to include the human dimension and culture in Louisiana’s plans to address our statewide environmental changes. These groups include Culture and Coastal Planning, Artists and Tradition Bearers, French Language Preservation, Preparing Receiving Communities, and Protecting Collections. Passing It On workshops are taught by a tradition bearer who would like to pass on their tradition through a workshop that provides deep learning.
Saturday, October 19th
10am-5pm The Bayou Culture Collaborative including:
The Bayou Culture Collaborative Working Groups
Table Française (French Table)
The Center for Planning Excellence
Sunday, October 20th
10am-5pm “Passing It On” Workshops including:
Traditional Boat-building with the Center for Traditional Boatbuilding
Wax Flower Making with Sabina Miller
Tent 3: La Maison “The House”
This area will feature cultural demonstrations to allow our visitors an opportunity to interact with local traditional crafters while they practice their traditions. Daylong demonstrations will include traditional boat building, fishing net making, quilting, and duck carving.
Saturday, October 19th and Sunday, October 20th
10am-5pm Daylong Cultural Demonstrations including:
Janie Luster- Native baskets
Gene Hebert- Waterfowl Carving
Cane Cutters- Quilting
Ivy Billiot and Douglas Fazzio- Toy and Blowgun Carving
Houma, LA • (985) 580-7289
Houma, LA
(985) 580-7289
